Advertising

Today sees the launch of an initiative that seeks to draw attention to the under-representation of the BAME (British Black Asian and Ethnic minorities) community in advertising and marketing, with particular focus on Easter. #EasterSoWhite is the...

Advertising

Publicis - Fairy
Fairy has brought to life the power of a single drop of its famous washing up liquid with a playful art installation of bubbles. Fairy wanted to come up with an engaging way to showcase its unique mileage messaging: “one drop...

Features

Last year, San Miguel, the premium Spanish beer brand, took a look back into their history in a bid to better understand their heritage and uncover a contemporary way of imparting that history onto beer drinkers all around the world. The result was...

Technology

The Edible Water Bottle Hoping to Erase the Need for Plastic Bottles
An edible water bottle that hopes to replace the millions of plastic bottles thrown away every year has raised over £500,000 in a crowdfunding campaign. The literal ball of...

Design

Iconic fashion brand Vogue announced this week that Edward Enninful would serve as the editor of their British magazine. This is notable not only because Enninful will become the magazine's first male editor, but also the first black editor of a...

Features

Close your eyes for a moment and think about the one big thing that has happened in your business environment over the past year that has directly impacted you.
Last January (2016) I set about igniting conversations with companies that had...

Features

We’re spending an extraordinary - and ever-increasing - amount of time playing mobile games. Our smartphones and tablets, packed with addictive apps, entice us to spend on average 3 hours a day playing games - a figure which rocketed 57% from...

Trends

In the rush to pin the butterfly of ‘experience’, are over-complex strategy creating their own problems, rather than helping deliver better customer services?
It’s my contention that over-complicated ‘road maps’ of...

Entertainment

Arcade Editor Greg Scruton and Timber’s team of visual effects artists have joined forces in the masterful execution of postproduction elements for Kendrick Lamar’s highly-anticipated music video, “Humble.” Scruton’s...

Features

The world of technology is constantly developing and we are charged with the task of staying ahead of the game in order to keep up with the latest trends in Next Gen broadcast and consumer electronics.
As an industry that continuously encounters...

Advice

Let's replace the always-on content approach with one where you don't say anything unless it's meaningful and backs the brand purpose. Specsavers won plaudits for a quick witted and relevant response to the mix-up while Snickers’ got in there...

Features

Tell us a bit about yourself?
My names Nayaab Tania, I'm 21 years old and a Stylist/Director based in London.
Most challenging job to date?
It would have to be the Adidas x Bape Campaign that I styled. I felt the pressure on this shoot as it was...

WOW - A LONG overdue Beach Meets chat today with the AMAZING Rosy Nicholas: prop maker, illustrator, set designer, fashion designer, teacher, and craftswoman extraordinaire. We first met Rosy back in 2008 when she was working at Lazy Oaf - whom she...

Trends

Social media has become central to the way many of us stay connected - not just to our nearest and dearest, but to the global population. But following the recent revelations of fake news, people are seeing the way others share online in a new light;...

Advice

12 months, 79 spreadsheets, 85.6GB worth of page designs, 90 design templates, 682.75 hours of coding, 137 Google Hangouts and four flights across 34,000 kilometers later and Amys.com was born.
Find out how we did it here.
This post reflects on our...

Inspiration

I must admit to being slightly addicted to books about how people are persuaded to buy things. Yet the very preponderance of such books indicates that there are very many competing opinions and theories of 'How we decide’ (also the title of one...

Advertising

In a bid to smash the mold of the traditional agency demographic, Wunderman opened its entry level recruitment scheme to non-graduates for the first time with the launch of Wunder Hunter - a recruitment platform that targets university alumni...

Design

Grayson Perry is working with London-based architects Apparata on an affordable-housing scheme with integrated studios for artists located in Barking, east London. A House for Artists is designed to provide relatively low-cost rental accommodation...

Advertising

This week sees the launch of B&Q’s latest TV spot, part of its fully integrated Spring campaign from WCRS. The campaign sets out to remind customers that whatever their home improvement need or challenge, B&Q always has a brilliant solution,...

Advertising

ITV is partnering with VR production company VR City and media agency Goodstuff to showcase the highlights of The Randox Health Grand National in virtual reality, following the success of the broadcaster’s recent ground-breaking VR campaign for...

Advertising

When Pepsi dropped their no-doubt incredibly expensive and undeniably ambitious new ad earlier this week, they probably had no idea that, by week's end, the spot would have dominated global headlines, which is particularly impressive, given the...

Advertising

VCCP - Domino's Pizza
Domino's has appointed VCCP as its lead creative and strategic agency for the UK and Ireland after a competitive pitch process. VCCP will be working on its above-the-line business, but Incumbent Iris will continue to work on...

Advertising

AKQA Italy
Umberto Basso has been appointed as Managing Director of AKQA in Italy. Prior to this role, Umberto was Head of Emerging Technology at AKQA, and will now report into Matthew Bain, International Managing Director. Umberto will oversee AKQA...

Economy

Thousands of employers will publish their gender pay gap figures for the first time from today (April 6), helping break the glass ceiling and create a more modern workforce. The UK is one of the first countries in the world to require gender pay gap...

Advertising

J. Walter Thompson Amsterdam has gone far beyond the traditional ad campaign for India’s burgeoning “Free a Girl Movement” with its work to create a School for Justice where the victims of child prostitution in India are taught law, enabling...

Events

Announcing the 12th year of AKQA’s global student competition in collaboration with Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity.
This year, Future Lions is calling on enquiring minds without limit. Those who are willing to look beyond...

Advertising

TMW Unlimited - Lynx
TMW Unlimited has created a candid digital campaign for Lynx about what it means to be a man in 2017. The “Men In Progress” campaign comprises nine videos featuring a cross-section of British men talking honestly...

Advertising

Churchill Insurance has partnered with WCRS and Ocean Outdoor in an out of home (DOOH) campaign featuring Churchie the iconic dog serving live, personalised messages to drivers. “Churchie’s Drive-Thru Car Insurance,” created by WCRS, won the...

Advertising

Heinz, one of the world’s most popular food brands, has brought its iconic “Beanz Meanz Heinz” slogan to life with an exclusive Selfridges partnership. Created by global brand design agency Jones Knowles Ritchie (JKR) to mark the...

Advertising

UPDATE: Since this article was first posted, Pepsi have decided (wisely in my opinion) to pull the ad from YouTube. A Pepsi spokesperson said in a press release: "Pepsi was trying to project a global message of unity, peace and understanding. Clearly...

Design

Aardman – Las Iguanas
Aardman, the Bristol-based animation studio best known for the Wallace and Gromit films, has rebranded the kid’s menu at Latin American restaurant chain Las Iguanas. Aardman, who are renowned for developing lovable...

Advertising

Equal Pay Day (April 4) is a movement dedicated to showing how much further into the year a woman, on average, must work to earn what her male counterpart earned the previous year. The day, originated by the National Committee on Pay Equality (NCPE)...

Features

Third Age Creativity: The future of the creative world by Duan Evans, International Executive Creative Director at AKQA
Think for a second - what do you think is the most amazing thing created by mankind?
Is it a city like New York, or a single...

Economy

Despite ongoing fears and speculation that robots could steal British jobs, new data reveals that the majority of industry professionals (63.3%) have never witnessed job losses as a result of the introduction of robots or automated processes....

Advertising

For the fourth year in a row, BBDO has been ranked the most effective agency network in the world in the WARC 100. The annual WARC 100 from the World Advertising Research Centre tracks the rankings of campaigns based on their performance in more than...